A couple fabric parcels recently arrived, and this bundle of almost entirely Lizzy House Pearl Bracelets is thanks to a March birthday gift certificate from my thoughtful friend, Deb. Thank you very much, my dear. I will think of you when I sew with them.

Then, a coupon code sale at Quilthome.com gave me the chance to buy up more of "Painter's Canvas" fabric by Laura Gunn. I just love the texture in this almost-solid, and I'm happy to say I now have it in eight colors. I have plans for using some of them very soon.

In some rush sewing, I've finished up this donation quilt that's been given to Project Linus. I'm ashamed to say how long it's been since I've made a quilt for the express purpose of giving it away, so this is long overdue.

It was a easy quilt on which to FMQ, and play with an Aurifil blue variegated thread.

From the Project Linus website, I downloaded the logo (Linus with his blanket, and Snoopy) to create a label. Making a label for a donation quilt is just as important as making a label for every quilt I make. You too?

On another, modern quilt, I'm FMQing... and almost wish I hadn't started this sort of density! Now the whole quilt has to be quilted this way. And the quilt is 55" X 70"! It's likely I won't have it finished by Thursday, as I'd hoped.

"Why Thursday?" you might ask. Well, that evening is when Lora of DragonflyQuiltworks, and I co-present a "What is Modern Quilting?" program to Country Road Quilters in Ocala. We've been planning and preparing for weeks - a 50-slide Powerpoint presentation about the growth of modern quilting, the history of The Modern Quilt Guild, characteristics of modern quilting - with lots of pictures of quilts - all followed-up by showing about 15 of our own modern quilts. We're both excited to be sharing modern quilting to an audience of mostly traditional quilters.

14 comments:

I'm so glad you enjoyed the gift certificate. It was my pleasure. I just love the block you made. But, darn it, I think I'm going to have to invest in some of that Painter's Canvas. I have not run across that and it would be perfect for an upcoming project. I love, love, love the machine quilting you are doing. It does get tiring but the movement and colors are so wonderful that it will be fabulous when you are done. I'm so happy that you have so much fun stuff to look forward to. Thanks for sharing my dear Linda.

Can you please sent some of your sewing mojo over to me. I'm still suffering a bit from "listlessness" but at least I'm sewing ;). I'm in the process of FMQ a friendship quilt our group made for one lady who is leaving in the near future. So I'm not completely lazy, just nothing a can show.I love your feather block and all your other projects. Thanks for reminding me of your zig zag tutorial. That's one of the quilts which is on my to do list.

I really like your feather block. Wish I lived closer so I could enjoy your presentation on the Modern Quilt Guild. We have a fairly big following here in St. Louis too. Be sure to post some pictures of your trunk show. It will almost be like we are there!:)